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of being pushed into role after role as an all-purpose ethnic peasant-- clothes and hoop earrings, brown makeup, speaking a language you might call "not from here." >> i've played polynesian, i've played an arabian girl, an east indian girl. and what was so confusing about that, which i mentioned in my book, is that i assumed i had to have an accent. nobody said anything, so i made up what i call the universal ethnic accent, and they all sounded alike! didn't matter who i was playing. polynesian? they would all talk like this. >> suarez: moreno, now 81, sees today's performers as more free to be themselves, less often forced to play to stereotype, and she's glad. >> what happens is that you begin to live a double life. your life at home with mami and papi and your friends, and your life out there where... and i did. i accommodated that almost completely because i really believed that's how it had to be. i'm no longer ashamed of it. i was for many, many years, especially during the years when i was dissembling that way. but i didn't know any other way to do, any other way to be. and i wor
of being pushed into role after role as an all-purpose ethnic peasant-- clothes and hoop earrings, brown makeup, speaking a language you might call "not from here." >> i've played polynesian, i've played an arabian girl, an east indian girl. and what was so confusing about that, which i mentioned in my book, is that i assumed i had to have an accent. nobody said anything, so i made up what i call the universal ethnic accent, and they all sounded alike! didn't matter who i was...
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jeffrey brown has the story of the rebirth of a school that was once a crown jewel of african american education. >> first black general, first black graduate of the naval academy, second black of the naval academy, first black presidential cabinet member. what do they all have in common? it's this place, it's dunbar high school. >> woodruff: and mark shields and ramesh ponnuru analyze the week's news. those are just some of the stories we're covering on tonight's "pbs newshour." >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ñi >> supported by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdat;and peaceful world. more information at macfound.oró ó >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... ñr >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: our lead story tonight: washington headed into the final weekend before a potential government shutdown with the outcome still in doubt. th
jeffrey brown has the story of the rebirth of a school that was once a crown jewel of african american education. >> first black general, first black graduate of the naval academy, second black of the naval academy, first black presidential cabinet member. what do they all have in common? it's this place, it's dunbar high school. >> woodruff: and mark shields and ramesh ponnuru analyze the week's news. those are just some of the stories we're covering on tonight's "pbs...
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. >> i'm kevin brown, from iowa. and i've got a friend that's uninsuranced and i'm kind of worried what is going to happen with the prem tomb-- premiums and how the fines work, really. >> suarez: do we know yet how the fines are going to, without. how they are going to be levied, how high they will be. >> yes, we've known from the beginning but also a source of great confusion. the first year if you are-- if you don't have insurance, at tax time in 2015, if you don't have insurance in 2014, the fine is $95 or 1% of your taxable income, which sever greater. that fine goes up over several years, eventually it becomes $695 or 2.5% of your income. now there are a lot of people who won't be subject to the fine if they don't have insurance. if for instance you don't make enough money to have to file federal income taxes, that's about 10,000 dollars for an individual, about 20,000 for a couple. those people are exempt from the requirement to have insurance. they're also certain people if you are not here legally, obviously
. >> i'm kevin brown, from iowa. and i've got a friend that's uninsuranced and i'm kind of worried what is going to happen with the prem tomb-- premiums and how the fines work, really. >> suarez: do we know yet how the fines are going to, without. how they are going to be levied, how high they will be. >> yes, we've known from the beginning but also a source of great confusion. the first year if you are-- if you don't have insurance, at tax time in 2015, if you don't have...
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jeffrey brown has more on the story. >> brown: the pope's words came in a wide-ranging interview with an italian jesuit magazine, done in conjunction with a number of jesuit publications around the world, including "america" magazine published in the u.s. its editor in chief, father matt malone, joins us now. welcome to you, father. i wanted to ask you, first, briefly, just how unusually this is and how surprising it is to have the pope speaking out in this way. >> it's actually unprecedented. other popes have given interviews. pope benedict specifically gave two book length interviews to a german journalist but they were highly redacted and highly philosophical. no pope has really given an interview that was this frank, this intimate. >> that's look at some of the language getting a lot of attention. he said we cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. this not possible. i have not spoken much about this things and i was reprimanded which that. the teaching of the church is clear and i am a son of the church but it is not nec
jeffrey brown has more on the story. >> brown: the pope's words came in a wide-ranging interview with an italian jesuit magazine, done in conjunction with a number of jesuit publications around the world, including "america" magazine published in the u.s. its editor in chief, father matt malone, joins us now. welcome to you, father. i wanted to ask you, first, briefly, just how unusually this is and how surprising it is to have the pope speaking out in this way. >> it's...
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jeffrey brown sat down with her earlier today. here's an excerpt from their conversation. . >> brown: what is the story you want to tell? the story of haiti that you reach for in so many of your works? >> well, ain't multiplicity of stories to be told about haiti. i think haiti is one of those places that is often portrayed in a very singular way and i certainly wouldn't want to participate in that and maybe this is what harkens all these voices in this one town. i want people to see the story of communities. there's the story of poverty but also great wealth next to that poverty and environmental stories, the story of different religions. so that -- there's little bit of that in the town but if people go back to read other literatures of haiti, it's certainly haiti is not a monolithic community, it's a beautiful artistic and spiritual community but it's nothing -- it's nothing monolithic about it. >> brown: and you reach back for that -- in this case, this is based on your mother's story or your mother's town. so you reach back f
jeffrey brown sat down with her earlier today. here's an excerpt from their conversation. . >> brown: what is the story you want to tell? the story of haiti that you reach for in so many of your works? >> well, ain't multiplicity of stories to be told about haiti. i think haiti is one of those places that is often portrayed in a very singular way and i certainly wouldn't want to participate in that and maybe this is what harkens all these voices in this one town. i want people to...
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. >> reporter: walls of muddy brown water poured down mountainsides today. that added to floods that have already inundated towns along colorado's front range. >> we've lived in this area for 32 years. never has the creek gone. it's gone over, but it's never flooded. this i would consider a 100-year flood for us. >> a foot and a half or two feet of water doesn't look like it's life threatening, but it is. it's different than normal water. >> reporter: governor john hickenlooper had those words of warning this morning for residents of his drenched state, where roads are washed out, communities are cut off and thousands are being urged to leave. >> you've got to recognize this water is filled with debris and sand, it is almost like liquid cement and just a foot and a half of water can knock people over and you can be swept away. >> reporter: the entire town of lyons was being evacuated by national guard troops after u.s. route 36 was washed out. it stranded the 2,000 people who live there. there were evacuations overnight in boulder too, as warning alarms blar
. >> reporter: walls of muddy brown water poured down mountainsides today. that added to floods that have already inundated towns along colorado's front range. >> we've lived in this area for 32 years. never has the creek gone. it's gone over, but it's never flooded. this i would consider a 100-year flood for us. >> a foot and a half or two feet of water doesn't look like it's life threatening, but it is. it's different than normal water. >> reporter: governor john...
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. >> ifill: jeffrey brown teams up with poet laureate natasha trethewey, to examine a program aimed at improving the lives of people with alzheimer's disease. >> during the session earlier where gary said emma lazurus, you immediately said... >> "give me your tired and your poor, your huddled masses..." >> ifill: good evening. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. those are just some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: our lead story tonight, syria's president publicly agreed to ban chemical weapons and give up his stockpile, un
. >> ifill: jeffrey brown teams up with poet laureate natasha trethewey, to examine a program aimed at improving the lives of people with alzheimer's disease. >> during the session earlier where gary said emma lazurus, you immediately said... >> "give me your tired and your poor, your huddled masses..." >> ifill: good evening. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. those are just some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour....
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for that we turn to jeffrey brown. >> brown: it's a stockpile that's believed to be the largest in the world, a prewar map compiled by the monterey institute shows where syria's chemical weapons and production facilities were thought to be, spread through the western half of the country. definitive information on the current situation is much harder to come by. to walk us through we turn to charles duelfer, a top u.n. weapons inspector in iraq during the 1990s, after the u.s. invasion in 2003, he led the c.i.a.'s iraq survey group which continued to look for weapons of mass destruction. he's author of "hide and seek: the search for truth in he's author of "hide and seek: the search for truth in iraq." >> thank you. >> first the question, what does it mean to hand over chemical weapons? what happens physically? who does it? >> well, the process would be, presumably, set out by it security council where they put the burden of proof and the burden of doing these things on the syrian government. so they would constitute a group of weapons inspectors but the burden of showing where the weap
for that we turn to jeffrey brown. >> brown: it's a stockpile that's believed to be the largest in the world, a prewar map compiled by the monterey institute shows where syria's chemical weapons and production facilities were thought to be, spread through the western half of the country. definitive information on the current situation is much harder to come by. to walk us through we turn to charles duelfer, a top u.n. weapons inspector in iraq during the 1990s, after the u.s. invasion in...
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jeffrey brown looks at a program for students from low-income families. >> my parents always said that these schools were for the rich people that could afford it. >> good evening >> woodruff: good evening. i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. those are just some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: on this first night of the new pbs newshour, we have a lot of news for you. >> ifill: we also have a new look, but judy and i will be bringing you the news and analysis you have come to trust. >> woodruff: tonight our lead story is syria, where developments have been moving fast. >> from da dama
jeffrey brown looks at a program for students from low-income families. >> my parents always said that these schools were for the rich people that could afford it. >> good evening >> woodruff: good evening. i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. those are just some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation....
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jeffrey brown reports on efforts to change that. >> let's start with hobbes. >> brown: 8:30 a.m. on a summer morning on the campus of princeton university, and these high school students are already engaged in a rigorous discourse about political philosophy. >> we're predisposed to competition. >> good, good. we're getting there. >> it's survival of the fittest. >> good, good. >> brown: alejandra rincon, who grew up in texas-- just 15 minutes from the mexico border-- is an honor student at her school. but she said she'd never been exposed to anything like this. >> because i felt that he was teaching us so much and if i wouldn't have been here, where would i have learned this? >> alejandro? >> the class is part >> brown: the class is part of an intensive boot camp for 60 high school students from around the country from inner cities and rural areas-- students who never imagined they could attend or afford an ivy league school. >> my parents always said that these schools were for the rich people that can afford it. so i always thought it would be difficult for me to come to these
jeffrey brown reports on efforts to change that. >> let's start with hobbes. >> brown: 8:30 a.m. on a summer morning on the campus of princeton university, and these high school students are already engaged in a rigorous discourse about political philosophy. >> we're predisposed to competition. >> good, good. we're getting there. >> it's survival of the fittest. >> good, good. >> brown: alejandra rincon, who grew up in texas-- just 15 minutes from the...
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jeffrey brown has our conversation. >> brown: if you want an education, the odds aren't with you, just one of many provocative lines from a new book exploring the contemporary university, very much including the most elite institutions and the lives of teachers and students. it's called "why teach: in defense of a real education." author mark edmundson is a professor of english at the university of virginia and joins us now. welcome to you. >> thanks so ch. >> brown: first what, say real education and why does it need defending? >> well, a real people by saying this-- is humanities based and getting to know yourself, figuring out who you are and what you want to do with your life. >> brown: and that is not what is taught now? >> well, i think a lot of student come to school, having been primed by their parents and teaches to go into a business school, go into an economic major and science major whether it's in their heart or not. we have to speak to that, it seems to me, and that's what i try to do in the book. >> brown: you write midway through the last century, american higher educat
jeffrey brown has our conversation. >> brown: if you want an education, the odds aren't with you, just one of many provocative lines from a new book exploring the contemporary university, very much including the most elite institutions and the lives of teachers and students. it's called "why teach: in defense of a real education." author mark edmundson is a professor of english at the university of virginia and joins us now. welcome to you. >> thanks so ch. >> brown:...
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picks up the story from there. >> brown: we check in again with two people who've helped us keep up with the continuing crisis. arjun makhijani is an engineer specializing in nuclear fusion. he's the president of the institute for energy and environmental research. kenji kushida specializes in japanese studies at stanford university. . >> welcome back to both of you. arjun, let me start with you, how serious are the new revelations about the water contamination. >> the last time we spoke or we talked about the leak and the radiation levels that could give a worker an annual radiation dose in 12 minutes. well, more recently, there have been reports that the radiation levels near another tank are 1800 units per hour. this is an extremely high level of radiation. a few hours basically constitutes a lethal dose. so now we're talking about radioactive contamination in the tanks and the liquid stored in the tanks that are very highly radioactive so the leaks that are extremely problematic for the workers and for management. >> is this something they just discovered or what suddenly causes
picks up the story from there. >> brown: we check in again with two people who've helped us keep up with the continuing crisis. arjun makhijani is an engineer specializing in nuclear fusion. he's the president of the institute for energy and environmental research. kenji kushida specializes in japanese studies at stanford university. . >> welcome back to both of you. arjun, let me start with you, how serious are the new revelations about the water contamination. >> the last...
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. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight: we discuss the options-- and the consequences of whatever action is or isn't taken-- with two members of congress who were briefed on the evidence by the white house. >> woodruff: and we get the perspectives of "newshour" analysts mark shields and david brooks. >> brown: then, the race to save the centuries-old sequoias at yosemite national park, threatened by wildfires burning just miles away. we have a report from the scene. >> woodruff: we wrap up our look at the legacy of the march on washington, 50 years on. tonight, the long journey of the civil rights movement, and its unfinished business. >> we have this, in my view, race-based partisan gridlock that denies the possibilities that america can do what we proved we could do in the 60s, which is tackle our toughest problem. >> brown: and we remember seamus heaney-- the nobel-prize winning poet who died today in his native ireland. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." >> major funding fo
. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight: we discuss the options-- and the consequences of whatever action is or isn't taken-- with two members of congress who were briefed on the evidence by the white house. >> woodruff: and we get the perspectives of "newshour" analysts mark shields and david brooks. >> brown: then, the race to save the centuries-old sequoias at yosemite national park, threatened by wildfires burning just miles away....
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." >> look for the blue, look for the brown. >> moyers: one of the decisions keith has made is to hold off on getting married and having kids. >> i want to make sure i can control my destiny, and that's including not having children at a certain age. i would love to say i want to bring in a child in the world, but until i have myself together, i'm confident and believe that i have myself together... and people say there's no perfect time to have a kid, i know that, but there's been too many struggles i saw. and for me, it's like, "can i make that sacrifice?" and if i do, man, they... maybe one kid. maybe a dog right now. that's why i got spike, so that's it. >> moyers: knowing what growing up without money is like, keith takes extra jobs to make sure he's never in the same fix. he's a landlord, collecting rents on this building he bought just up the street from his parents' storefront church. he also works nights and weekends as a videographer... >> if you can, kind of restate the question in the answer. >> moyers: shooting and editing public and private events. and he does have a youn
." >> look for the blue, look for the brown. >> moyers: one of the decisions keith has made is to hold off on getting married and having kids. >> i want to make sure i can control my destiny, and that's including not having children at a certain age. i would love to say i want to bring in a child in the world, but until i have myself together, i'm confident and believe that i have myself together... and people say there's no perfect time to have a kid, i know that, but...
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jeffrey brown leads a debate over options for the obama administration. >> brown: the question: how should the u.s. respond to syria's alleged chemical weapons attack? we discuss that with ivo dahlder, former u.s. ambassador to nato and now president of the chicago council on global affairs. hisham melhem is the washington bureau chief of al arabiya news channel. and john mearsheimer is a professor at the university of chicago and has written extensively on strategic issues. ivo dahlder, i'll start wurk given the options the u.s. discussed what do you think the u.s. should do? >> i think the president laid it out in the interview we just saw. we clearly have a case in which chemical weapons were used. i think the evidence the administration has collected and needs to present to the american public and, indeed, to the world, demonstrating that this was a use of chemical weapons by the regime suggests that standing still and not doing anything really isn'tab option. i think we need to respond with a punitive strike to send a message to the regime that this kind of behavior is unacceptable. c
jeffrey brown leads a debate over options for the obama administration. >> brown: the question: how should the u.s. respond to syria's alleged chemical weapons attack? we discuss that with ivo dahlder, former u.s. ambassador to nato and now president of the chicago council on global affairs. hisham melhem is the washington bureau chief of al arabiya news channel. and john mearsheimer is a professor at the university of chicago and has written extensively on strategic issues. ivo dahlder,...
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>>brown: what resources do we have? do you have enough in terms of equipment and firefighters themselves? >> we do. this fire is not only the number one fire in the state of california but it is also the number one fire in the nation. so resource orders are come to the rim fire. we have about 4,000 ground troops and several area resources not o helicopters but also fixed wing and we've also activated the california national guard that is a big resource for fighting these fires. >>brown: tell us about protecting the power and water sources. >> well we're working very closely the incident command team from the u.s. forest service is work very closely with the city of san diego public utilities and also the city of san diego fire department but i can tell you that is a very important structure and infrastructure so firefighters and crews are out there protecting that area. >>brown: there were reports late today that the fire is getting quite close to the reservoir. >> that is correct. but in anticipation of that fire again
>>brown: what resources do we have? do you have enough in terms of equipment and firefighters themselves? >> we do. this fire is not only the number one fire in the state of california but it is also the number one fire in the nation. so resource orders are come to the rim fire. we have about 4,000 ground troops and several area resources not o helicopters but also fixed wing and we've also activated the california national guard that is a big resource for fighting these fires....
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jeffrey brown has our profile. ( cheers and applause ) >> brown: it's not where you expect to see the lead guitarist of what's widely seen as rock and roll's leading jam band. ♪ but there was trey anastasio best known for his work with the band phish, performing arrangements of his music with the national symphony orchestra in washington. and even for a man used to playing for thousands in huge arenas, this was exciting. ♪ >> when you stand in that spot next to the podium and the orchestra is playing, the sound is... >> brown: it's pretty amazing, isn't it? >> oh, my god, it's in 3-d, and it's coming in every direction. my knees get weak. ♪ >> brown: it turns out that anastasio's love for classical music is long-standing, going back to his youth. he credits a college composition teacher for showing him how to write large-scale pieces modeled on symphonies, big band arrangements and more. >> we used to talk a lot about not getting so hung up on styles but being much more focused on content, so that you could sneak harmonic elegance into rock and roll. >> brown: you felt that from
jeffrey brown has our profile. ( cheers and applause ) >> brown: it's not where you expect to see the lead guitarist of what's widely seen as rock and roll's leading jam band. ♪ but there was trey anastasio best known for his work with the band phish, performing arrangements of his music with the national symphony orchestra in washington. and even for a man used to playing for thousands in huge arenas, this was exciting. ♪ >> when you stand in that spot next to the podium and...
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. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight: the release comes amid reports of a new n.s.a. spying program on internet activity. we look at the latest revelations and the secret court at the center of the controversy. >> ifill: then, ben bernanke's tenure as federal reserve chairman nears its end, as the debate over who will replace him begins. we examine how that choice could affect the economic recovery. >> brown: egypt's government ordered police to take all means necessary to disband protests in support of the ousted president. margaret warner explores the potential for violence and the actions of the new military rule. >> ifill: and in india, child labor is outlawed, but a staggering number of children still toil away. fred de sam lazaro reports on efforts to change that practice. >> the combination of official and middle-class indifference, and dire poverty, drives perhaps 50 million children into the workplace. some as young as six or seven. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." >>
. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight: the release comes amid reports of a new n.s.a. spying program on internet activity. we look at the latest revelations and the secret court at the center of the controversy. >> ifill: then, ben bernanke's tenure as federal reserve chairman nears its end, as the debate over who will replace him begins. we examine how that choice could affect the economic recovery. >> brown: egypt's government ordered police...
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. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight, both the prosecution and the defense have made closing arguments. now the soldier's fate is in the hands of a judge. we get an update. >> woodruff: then, houston-based halliburton admitted to destroying evidence after the 2010 gulf oil spill. hari sreenivasan looks at the implications for the energy services company and oil giant b.p. >> brown: protesters took to the streets in two north african countries today. margaret warner fills us in on the latest in egypt, with conspiracy charges against the former president and in tunisia, after another political assassination. >> woodruff: the fukushima nuclear plant-- crippled by an earthquake and tsunami two years ago-- is leaking contaminated water into the sea. we get a rare glimpse inside the still radioactive area. >> the regalia in which i'm now standing including this, a dose meter, which will give my accumulated radiation dose across the time were inside the exclusion zone. >> brown: plus, mark shields and
. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight, both the prosecution and the defense have made closing arguments. now the soldier's fate is in the hands of a judge. we get an update. >> woodruff: then, houston-based halliburton admitted to destroying evidence after the 2010 gulf oil spill. hari sreenivasan looks at the implications for the energy services company and oil giant b.p. >> brown: protesters took to the streets in two north african countries...
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. >> brown: then, as the west weighs arming syrian rebels. margaret warner examines the lessons learned from previous conflicts. >> woodruff: from our pbs colleagues in chicago, we have the story of a group trying to stem the exit of teachers from the classroom. >> it's a huge problem. i mean we lose 50% of all new teachers in the first three to five years. >> brown: and we close with some historical perspectives on last week's extraordinary and landmark decisions at the supreme court. >> a historian 50 years from now-- i think it would be very hard for them to write about this period without writing about what happened last week-- three cases particularly that do have threads that run all the way through american history. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in th
. >> brown: then, as the west weighs arming syrian rebels. margaret warner examines the lessons learned from previous conflicts. >> woodruff: from our pbs colleagues in chicago, we have the story of a group trying to stem the exit of teachers from the classroom. >> it's a huge problem. i mean we lose 50% of all new teachers in the first three to five years. >> brown: and we close with some historical perspectives on last week's extraordinary and landmark decisions at the...
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in concerts throughout the country. ♪ take a train and go back home ♪ >> brown: >> brown: online you can watch more of my conversation with audra mcdonald, where she discusses the stamina required to play "bess," and how hard it was to "leave her" at the theater. >> ifill: again, the major developments of the day. the u.s. supreme court struck down a key provision of the voting rights act, effectively blocking enforcement of the landmark civil rights measure. president obama announced executive action to force reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, especially from coal- fired power plants. and russian president putin rejected u.s. appeals to hand over edward snowden, the man who leaked news of secret surveillance programs. he apparently remained at a moscow airport. >> brown: also online today, journalists and members of congress come to blows, all for a good cause. hari sreenivasan has more. >> sreenivasan: the annual congressional women's softball game pits members of the d.c. press corps against members of congress, and playing right field for the "bad news babes" is newshour's o
in concerts throughout the country. ♪ take a train and go back home ♪ >> brown: >> brown: online you can watch more of my conversation with audra mcdonald, where she discusses the stamina required to play "bess," and how hard it was to "leave her" at the theater. >> ifill: again, the major developments of the day. the u.s. supreme court struck down a key provision of the voting rights act, effectively blocking enforcement of the landmark civil rights...
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i'm ray suarez. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening. thanks for joining us. good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> rose: welcome to the program. tonight a look at the world of private equity with steve schwarzman the cofounder and ceo of the blackstone group. >> what we're doing at blackstone is we're committed to hire 50,000 veterans over the next five years. i feel really -- >> rose: 50,000. >> 50,000. we have quite a large operation in terms of one of our seven business lines which happens to be private equity. we own about 80 companies w
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i'm ray suarez. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening. thanks for joining us. good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org
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good evening, i'm jeffrey brown. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the "newshour" tonight, we take a closer look at the reversal by afghan president karzai and its impact on the drive toward stability in the country. >> brown: then, before berlin's historic brandenburg gate, president obama called for a dramatic decrease in nuclear weapons. margaret warner explores the prospects of the potential arms agreement with russia. >> suarez: miles o'brien has the
good evening, i'm jeffrey brown. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the "newshour" tonight, we take a closer look at the reversal by afghan president karzai and its impact on the drive toward stability in the country. >> brown: then, before berlin's historic brandenburg gate, president obama called for a dramatic decrease in nuclear weapons. margaret warner explores the prospects of the potential arms agreement with russia. >> suarez: miles o'brien has the
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. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, we explore the prospects for peace in afghanistan, as its government forces today formally took control of the country's security. >> ifill: then, the debate over immigration reform gathers steam. tonight, ray suarez talks with kentucky republican senator rand paul. citizenship is a privilege i think we can discuss how we do that down the road. we examine a new study that >> brown: we examine a new study that finds most education schools are in disarray, and poorly preparing the nation's teachers to help students learn. >> ifill: special correspondent kira kay reports from myanmar, on the violent clashes between muslims and buddhists that have displaced more than 100,000 people. >> brown: and we close with a different look at afghanistan, through an ancient oral tradition kept alive in two-line poems. teletrade. the women have done this for centuries, they reflect that are >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour
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i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight, now that u.s. intelligence believes assad's government has used chemical weapons, we debate the american response with two former foreign policy advisers: zbigniew brzezinski and vali nasr. >> woodruff: then, ray suarez gets the latest on detroit's dire financial situation, after the city's emergency manager said it will default on $2.5 billion of debt. >> brown: six months after the tragic shootings in newtown, margaret warner updates efforts to push for gun control legislation. >> woodruff: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> brown: and we wrap up our week of stories on food security. tonight, the demand for dairy and what that means for california farmers. >> many people in the industry believe we make too much milk. my view is we don't make enough milk here in california. if you take a global view of the international dairy market, there's actually a shortage of milk around the world. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newsh
i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight, now that u.s. intelligence believes assad's government has used chemical weapons, we debate the american response with two former foreign policy advisers: zbigniew brzezinski and vali nasr. >> woodruff: then, ray suarez gets the latest on detroit's dire financial situation, after the city's emergency manager said it will default on $2.5 billion of debt. >> brown: six months after the...
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. >> brown: ray suarez gauges attitudes in the u.s. toward gays and lesbians on the heels of a new poll pointing to increasing acceptance. >> woodruff: spencer michels reports on how california is preparing for a major decision on same-sex marriage. >> brown: and we close with a conversation with author walter mosley about his famous fictional detective, "easy rawlins", and more. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> we begin with a late development about the war in syria. the obama administration has determined the syri
. >> brown: ray suarez gauges attitudes in the u.s. toward gays and lesbians on the heels of a new poll pointing to increasing acceptance. >> woodruff: spencer michels reports on how california is preparing for a major decision on same-sex marriage. >> brown: and we close with a conversation with author walter mosley about his famous fictional detective, "easy rawlins", and more. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has...
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good evening, i'm jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight, we get the latest on the fire outside colorado springs which continues to burn out of control. >> brown: then, the supreme court rules unanimously an isolated human gene may not be patented. we examine what the decision means for the future of medical research. >> woodruff: our series on food security goes to india, where
good evening, i'm jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight, we get the latest on the fire outside colorado springs which continues to burn out of control. >> brown: then, the supreme court rules unanimously an isolated human gene may not be patented. we examine what the decision means for the future of medical research. >> woodruff: our series on food security goes to india, where
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broadcast interview since the news broke. >> brown: david drummond, welcome. in your letter to the attorney general you appear to acknowledge that google does comply with government requests for user data, so that is in fact the case? >> yes, yes, that's the case. we sent that letter because there's been a serious misimpression that's been created in the wake of the store he-- stories that came out in the last few days, stories that we were as shocked by as everyone else. and the misimpression is that we're doing some kind of large scale or participating in a program that does large scale surveillance on our users. and that's just not the case. and we want to be able to be more transparent about what we do do which is occasionally comply with national security orders as were required to do. what we would like the government to do is to allow us to say more. >> brown: there seems to be a distinction between direct and indirect access to data. what exactly is the government allowed to look at? >> let me be very clear about this. we do not participate in any kind
broadcast interview since the news broke. >> brown: david drummond, welcome. in your letter to the attorney general you appear to acknowledge that google does comply with government requests for user data, so that is in fact the case? >> yes, yes, that's the case. we sent that letter because there's been a serious misimpression that's been created in the wake of the store he-- stories that came out in the last few days, stories that we were as shocked by as everyone else. and the...
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i'm gwen ifill. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, marcia coyle dissects the 5-4 decision, which split the court in surprising ways. >> ifill: then, violent demonstrations raged across turkey for a fourth straight day. we get the latest on the protesters calling for the prime minister to step down. >> it really started as this tiny sit-in, but this kind of progressive, powerful reooks by the police b
i'm gwen ifill. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, marcia coyle dissects the 5-4 decision, which split the court in surprising ways. >> ifill: then, violent demonstrations raged across turkey for a fourth straight day. we get the latest on the protesters calling for the prime minister to step down. >> it really started as this tiny sit-in, but this kind of progressive, powerful reooks by the police b